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Fix one thing... break another

I -was- going to find a community who might help me with my problem, but then I found this place and it's obviously much more constructive to bitch about it than to actually try to fix it. Shame on me for not seeing that right away.

So my HDD died on me, and after some fussing around I ordered a shiny new replacement. So after waiting for the mailman like a proper doggo, I installed my shiny new toy, booted my pc and... on of my monitors now doesn't work.

I don't know why. I tried a new hdmi-cable, I tried a new monitor. my 2nd monitor works perfectly. I updated my drivers and tried a handstand. nothing.
For the rest my pc works fine. The new hard disk works like a charm. But why doesn't my monitor work? If I fix it, will my mouse stop working?

I will still chill and play games tonight, but I will be mildly furiously staring at the black screen next to it every chance i get.

GregorGizeh , (edited )

I recently ran into much the same problem, a power outage fried my second screen. My computer wouldn't recognize it any more, no matter which port and which cable I used. I even ordered a fucking HDMI to DisplayPort adapter to try if that made any difference. Sadly to no avail, because that one didn't work either, and I already knew the screen was still functional from running a smart TV dongle on it.

Eventually I had the brilliant idea to switch the HDMI cable to the second input on the screen itself and not just the graphics card, and that finally did the trick. The outage had apparently fried HDMI input 1 on my second screen.

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

You're pretty much describing the process i went trough, with some altered details.
Power outage fried my HDD, ended up replacing it. Suddenly monitor doesn't work after reconnecting it. Tried the DP cable i had lying around, tried the 2nd HDMI port, both with the same HDMI cable and a different one. Tried a different monitor. (i don't have a 2nd system I could hook my monitor to, but at this point I'm fairly sure it has to do with the HDMI port of the GPU which I simply don't have the funds to replace... Might have a guy look at it, maby he knows something I don't)

MrNesser , (edited )

GPU would have been next step you might have knocked it when you had the box open

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

yeah that's where my head is at as well... I'm just not yet emotionally ready for that reality

bigkahuna1986 ,

I've got a Dell Optiplex I recovered from the garbage. HDMI worked fine for a few hours then stopped. The HDMI port on the monitor works with everything else I plug in. My HDMI TV works fine with the Optiplex. Changed cables multiple times throughout.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

if you swap the monitors, does the other monitor physically work? does the secondary monitor appear in the display settings?

Horrible_Goblin OP , (edited )

it has power. I can use the buttons to select the channel.
The only place where my pc seems to recognise it is in the monitor selection screen of my gpu drivers.... i cant select it there. Not sure if it recognises the monitor or if its just a ghost from having previously recognised it.

Edit: a different hdmi monitor or cable give the same result. "no Signal"

MrNesser ,

Have you connected the monitor to another system to rule it out?

If the pc isn't seeing a 2nd monitor then it's probably a graphics card issue.

If monitor 1 switches to monitor 2 port does it work?

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

I havn't yet, might later today. But I'm convinced its a gpu thing at this point. Might have bashed the hdmi cable a little to hard in the port trying to install it or something dumb like that. Its the only thing that I can think off that slightly makes sense, as it was working perfectly 5 minutes before, and nothing else has happened (other than plugging in an HDD, and I already tried unplugging that)

Rhynoplaz ,

Did you try turning it off and on again?

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

Oh, yeah that fixed it!

redcalcium ,

For real?

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

Nah :'), at least not the first 30 or so times i tried. Maby 31 is the charm.

Zerlyna ,
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No no. Unplug it, wait a minute, then plug it in again. /s

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

maby I should have googled '/s' first... :') At least we now know 31 is NOT the charm.

HeartyBeast ,

Blow into the end of the cable too

Horrible_Goblin OP ,

look, I already said I've done a handstand. that's about as good

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